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Post-Dispatch photos: Saturday, October 15, 2011
Date: 10/15/2011 Album ID: 1343193
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Gary, left, and his son Rob Jamison, both of Bridgeton, get gas and top off the oil on Gary's 1931 Ford Model A at a QuikTrip in Bridgeton Friday Oct. 14, 2011. The two were gathering with other classic car owners there before a trip to the 36th Annual Early Tin Dusters Fall Color Run in Quincy, Illinois this weekend. The Fall Color Run, which features cruises through fall color country, is for pre-1949 vehicles. The vehicles will be on display in downtown Quincy. It runs through Sunday. Photo by Christian Gooden, cgooden@post-dispatch.com
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October 14, 2011--- Right, Charles Messenbrink, with Laborers Local 42, holds up a sign as he joined about 500 union members, Occupy St. Louis supporters, and students in as they marched to the downtown Bank of America Friday afternoon. Messenbrink, of Florissant, said he was only able to find work for about 7 months this year. We need jobs. It's time to draw a line in the sand, he said. Emily Rasinski erasinski@post-dispatch.com
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October 14, 2011--- St. Louis Police lined Market Street in front of the Bank of America downtown as about 500 protesters marched there from Kiener Plaza. Local unions organized the rally and march Friday afternoon with Occupy St. Louis. Emily Rasinski erasinski@post-dispatch.com
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October 13, 2011--- Gary Mudd and student Laura Rose examine her truck's wheel position as she practices doing a 90 degree Alley Dock at Witte Truck Driving school in Troy Mo. The alley scares people the most but after they learn it they find out it's not that bad. The key to mastering it is to stay calm, go slow, use your mirrors, and get out and look, Mudd said. Before Mudd started as a truck driver in 1981. A year and a half ago he started teaching at the school. Trucking isn't fancy but we have pride, morals, and self respect. Thats something to be proud of in this day and age. Emily Rasinski erasinski@post-dispatch.com
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October 13, 2011--- Andrew Rogers instructs Ronald Jones on parallel parking at Witte Truck Driving school in Troy Mo. Rogers said the parallel parking is the hardest thing for a student to learn. You have to get a 68 ft truck into a 83 ft space. We have formulas we teach them until they understand the movements of the vehicle, Rogers said. He has been teaching at the school for three years. Emily Rasinski erasinski@post-dispatch.com
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October 13, 2011--- Student Nicholas Robinson gets out of this truck to check his progress on parallel parking at Witte Truck Driving school in Troy Mo. Nicholas said he was layed off from his previous job and chose truck driving for its job security. Emily Rasinski erasinski@post-dispatch.com
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(left to right) Kirkwood Mayor Art McDonnell bags groceries for Warren Stoltz from Kirkwood on Friday, October 14, 2011, at his store, McDonnell Market. McDonnell was holding a garage sale with heavy discounts to liquidate the remaining inventory prior to closing the store for good. Photo by Johnny Andrews, jandrews@post-dispatch.com
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A scale is among a few of the items left for sale as Kirkwood Mayor Art McDonnell prepares to close his store, McDonnell Market, on Friday, October 14, 2011. Photo by Johnny Andrews, jandrews@post-dispatch.com
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(left to right) Co-workers Emily Armstrong, Jodi Emory and Carol Shifflett chat with each other at McDonnell Market on Friday, October 14, 2011. Emory, who worked at the store for twenty five years before retiring two years ago, came back in the last few weeks to help out as the store prepares to close its doors for good. It's really sad. I've cried many tears in the last few months, said Emory, It's like a home away from home. Since I've retired, I just come up here to get hugs. Photo by Johnny Andrews, jandrews@post-dispatch.com
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Tom Lawler (left) from Kirkwood jokes around with Kirkwood Mayor Art McDonnell (right), who he says he has known for his entire life on Friday, October 14, 2011. McDonnell is closing his store, McDonnell Market, for good after he liquidates all of the remaining inventory. Photo by Johnny Andrews, jandrews@post-dispatch.com
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The Drumline of St. Louis performs after the Game 3 NLCS. Louis Tuesday October 13, 2011 after the game at Busch Stadium in St. Louis, Mo. Folks at the stadium seem to appreciate their sound, but the band of drummers struggles to find a place to play publicly without complaint of their noise from neighbors. From left to right are members and Antwon Smith,18 and Latroy Wately,34. Photo by Laurie Skrivan, lskrivan@post-dispatch.com
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I am the quality control around here, said retired radio personality Lou Fatha Thimes, center, who watches over employees, from left to right, Versebie Williams and Russell Turner, fill an order at his new restaurant October 7,2011 in St. Louis. Thimes opened the Lou Fatha Thimes BBQ Pork House he dreamed up with youngest daughter Patrice Thimes in late June, more than three months after her death from a stray bullet. The business now has become a welcome distraction to Thimes, who recently lost another child to a shooting within the month. I don't like to talk about it, said Thimes. Photo by Laurie Skrivan, lskrivan@post-dispatch.com
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I am the quality control around here, said retired radio personality Lou Fatha Thimes, center, who watches over employee Russell Turner, take a phone order at his new restaurant October 7, 2011 in St. Louis. Thimes opened the Lou Fatha Thimes BBQ Pork House he dreamed up with youngest daughter Patrice Thimes in late June, more than three months after her death from a stray bullet. The business now has become a welcome distraction to Thimes, who recently lost another child to a shooting within the month. I don't like to talk about it, said Thimes. Photo by Laurie Skrivan, lskrivan@post-dispatch.com
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Lou Thimes dedicated his new restaurant to his wife and two children who were killed this last year. A sign hangs in his BBQ Porkhouse October 7,2011 in St. Louis. . Photo by Laurie Skrivan, lskrivan@post-dispatch.com
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I told him if you carry it to the register, it's yours, said Mike Mouser of DeSoto, explaining his great dane Dexter's favorite squirrel chew toy outside Busch Stadium prior to game 5 of the NLCS Friday, October 14, 2011in St. Louis. Dexter attracted the cameras of Cardinals fans during his stay near the Stan Musial statue. Photo by Robert Cohen, rcohen@post-dispatch.com
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Joseph M. Darst, mayor of St. Louis from 1949 to 1953. Darst supported building the Interregional and had to fight an influential state senator and a governor to make it happen. The highway plan was adopted during the term of the previous mayor, Aloys P. Kaufmann. Only two months after Darst took office, Gov. Forrest Smith signed a legislative bill that prohibited evictions along the highway's path for two years. That had been the idea of state Sen. Anthony M. Webbe, who represented the area south of downtown. Darst, a former city welfare director, worked to find new lodging for the roughly 3,000 people living on the highway route. When the Legislature declined to renew Webbe's roadblock in 1951, the project was moved forward. Darst died at age 64 on June 8, 1953, only two months after he left office. Darst, Smith and Webbe were Democrats. (Post-Dispatch)
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State Sen. Anthony M. Webbe, a Democrat, who represented the neighborhood south of downtown in the Missouri Legislature for more than 18 years, first as a state representative from 1935 to 1941 and then as a senator. In 1949, he persuaded the Legislature and Gov. Forrest Smith to block the Interregional highway by prohibiting evictions along its route for two years. Webbe said it was criminal to force people out of their homes for the highway. He died at age 52 on July 15, 1953, while still a senator. (Lloyd Spainhower/ Post-Dispatch)
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The Third Street Highway, looking north toward the Old Cathedral, on the early morning of Oct. 15, 1955, shortly before it was opened to traffic without ceremony at 10 a.m. Motorists said it cut the trip from downtown to Gravois Avenue to five minutes, down from the usual 15 minutes. They approved of the 40 mph speed limit. The 2.3-mile stretch of highway cost $13 million to build. (Lou Phillips/Post-Dispatch)
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Traffic backs up at rush hour on the Interregional's ramp onto Gravois Avenue on Oct. 17, 1955, two days after the highway opened. Police officers worked to find ways to smooth the flow, but the bottleneck demonstrated the shortcomings of a two-mile-long freeway being linked to a city street, albeit a major one. By then, the Missouri Highway Commission already was planning the pinwheel system of interstates that exist today. (Bob Holt/Post-Dispatch)
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Yadier Molina celebrates his second innning RBI double during game five of the NLCS between the Milwaukee Brewers and St. Louis Cardinals at Busch Stadium on Friday October 14, 2011 in St. Louis. Photo by Chris Lee, clee@post-dispatch.com
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